Arcata Community Center, 321 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy, Arcata, California 95521, United States
+1.707.599.2729 Linda
Workshop Instructors 2025
Bellamy Devine
Bellamy is a textile artist working in their family’s traditional crafts of quilting, smocking, and clothes making. Their most recent work was exhibited in a local show, Everyone Goes To The Sun, which used all of these skills and more. They care a lot about the community and should you have any need at all, please feel free to contact. devine.bellamy@gmail.com
Bellamy is teaching the 2025 workshop:
Smocking Embroidery
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202522-smocking-embroidery
Kira Dulaney
Kira Dulaney has been teaching fiber arts classes since 2002 and travels across the country. Kira’s teaching focuses on providing valuable information in a stress-free environment and supporting students through the learning process. Kira designs knitting and crochet patterns and kits that are interesting to make and easy to wear.
@kirakdesigns on Instagram and Ravelry; @kiradulaney on YouTube; http://www.facebook.com/kirakdesigns
Kira is teaching the 2025 workshops:
Visible Mending with Speedweve Looms and Needle Felting
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202508-speedweve-patches
Needle Felting
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202524-needle-felting
Rima Greer
Rima began sewing at age 6, She studied handweaving with Anna Zinsmeister, Pattern Drafting at Otis College of the Arts in Los Angeles, and shoe making with Prescott & Mackay of London. Rima was the costume designer and builder for Campanile, a Musical Percussion Theatre show which toured throughout the US, Canada, and Asia. In 2006, Rima moved to Eureka from Los Angeles, and in 2009 she opened Eureka Fabrics, where she sells high quality natural fiber fabrics, teaches sewing and pattern drafting, sews her textile creations, and is having the time of her life.
https://eurekafabrics.com/
www.facebook.com/eurekafabrics
www.instagram.com/eurekafabrics
www.youtube.com/eurekafabrics
Rima is teaching the 2025 workshops:
Sewing for Handweavers & Upcyclers, https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202503-sewing-for-handweavers--upcyclers
Learn to Spin on a Hand Spindle
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202506-learn-to-spin-on-a-hand-spindle
Make Beautiful Lace & Jewelry with Needle Tatting
Janet Heppler
Janet Heppler has been a fiber artist for over 45 years. She is a weaver, spinner and dyer. Her business Nebo-Rock Textiles included her ranch where she raised award winning natural colored Merino sheep and Angora goats. Downsizing, selling the ranch and moving from Mendocino Co. CA to Woodland , WA 8 years ago, Janet became very interested in using and collecting mushrooms for dyeing yarn. She has taught dye classes for the Oregon Mycological Society, SOMA camp and various fiber guilds in the area. Being out in the woods collecting dye mushrooms and learning more about Fungi and sharing that knowledge is her big passion.
Janet is teaching the 2025 workshops:
Dyeing Yarn with Mushrooms
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202501-dyeing-yarn-with-mushrooms
Dyeing Yarn with Lichens
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202520-dyeing-yarn-with-lichens
Linda Hartshorn
Linda Hartshorn is a weaver and dyer known for lively color and dyework in her handwoven textiles. Linda taught workshops nationwide for twenty years before retiring to work exclusively in our local area. She teaches a weaving class at the Ink People Center for the Arts in Eureka and weaves and dyes at her home in Bayside.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LindaHartshornWeavingandDyeing
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/indigoweaver
Website: http://www.lindahartshorn.com
Linda is teaching the 2025 workshop
Intro to Inkle Weaving
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202523-intro-to-inkle-weaving
Alison Pritchard
Alison has been spinning yarns for nearly ten years, having first learned because she “needed a hobby”. She enjoys spinning all manner of natural fibers and fiber preparations to produce yarns from lace-weight to bulky art yarns. Mostly, she spins for the joy of spinning and loves when others find a use for her yarn.
Alison is teaching the 2025 workshop:
Intermediate wheel spinning - Fractal Yarn
Kay Sennott
Kay Sennott is a practiced fiber artist, with experience in textile design, weaving, spinning, knitting, natural dyeing, botanical printing, and basketry. Her background includes a textile degree as well as craft and textile classes and workshops as a teacher and a student.
Email address: ksennott@gmail.com
Kay is teaching the 2025 workshop:
Introduction to Botanical Printing
Tracy Shapiro
Tracy is a traditional fiber artist, historian, and teacher with a passion for exploring little-known folk and fiber arts. Along with studying with traditional artists, she continues her own research so that she can bring these crafts and the cultures that created them to life to share with others.
redwoodcoastartsandcrafts@gmail.com
Tracy is teaching the 2025 workshop:
Twined Berry Basket
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202505-sweets-basket
Amy Snell
Amy Snell is a knitting instructor and designer with an eye for the unusual or unusually captivating. She enjoys teaching techniques and stitch patterns that bring color, contrast, geometry, and texture into knitting in new or interesting ways.
Whether teaching locally in the San Francisco Bay area, virtually, or in-person for knitting guilds and events nationwide, Amy loves to help other knitters explore new techniques and expand the way they think about their knitting. Her goal is to make complex concepts approachable for all knitters, while sharing tips that improve your process whether you’ve been knitting for several weeks or several decades.
Amy's work has appeared in numerous books and periodicals including Cast On, Interweave Knits, Knotions, I Love Knitting and numerous pattern collections. She frequently shares tips and tricks on her website, www.DeviousKnitter.com, and can be found as @DeviousKnitter on social media. deviousknitter@gmail.com
Amy is teaching the 2025 workshops:
No look knitting
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202504-no-look-knitting
Braided I-Cord Collar
https://naturalfiberfair.com/workshop-enrollment/ols/products/202507-braided-i-cord-collar
Laura Steinberg
Laura’s grandmother taught her to crochet and knit at a young age, instilling a life long love of the world of creative arts.
She is fascinated by the process of turning simple fibers into functional and wearable art. Laura also loves sharing her knowledge and helping others develop their skills and passions in the fiber arts
She currently teaches crochet classes at Yarn in Eureka, CA .
etsy.com/shop/Longstorydesigns
Laura is teaching the 2025 workshop:
Learn to Crochet for Beginners - twisted headbank/earwarmer